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(11 so far as it keeps within ye bounds of Justice, & aims only at doing more good, it must be owned to be a noble Passion & becoming a Great Prince. It was then supposed for Argument sake, yt a Young generous Prince newly setled on ye throne of Great Brittain & in possession of ye Regall Power, & intitled to succeed to ye Electorate &c should be told, yt there is an Act of Parliamt requiring yt he renounce [[deletion]] it [[/deletion]] ye Electorate &c in favour of his Brother; but yt at ye same time those about him should tell him yt was in his Power to repeal ye Law & keep ye Electorate &c and, perhaps out of fflattery & to recommend themselves to him by a seeming zeal for his Grandure, perhaps honestly from their own reall Opinion of things, should persuade him yt to separate ^ [[addition]] those dominions from [[/addition]] ye Kingdom would be a prejudice to both: yt by keeping ye Electorate he would be enabled to advance ye wealth & happiness & mutuall advantages of both: if they should tell him (perhaps to give their persuasions greater weight, perhaps truly) yt ye body of his Subjects desired to have them [[deletion]] [[unclear]] [[/deletion]] preserved together, yt as to ye Law in being, the Parliamt of Gr Brittain then had as much right to repeal it, as a former Parliamt had to make it; yt his Brothers pretensions subsisted merely by an Act of Parliamt made in prejudice of his Birthright, and would cease with it; yt his younger Brother would have no more right ^ [[addition]] to complain [[/addition]] of an Act of Parliamt to restore his Right of Primogeniture than he ye King had to complain of that which took it away; nay indeed yt that Act did not take away his right, not could affect an Inheritance in ye Empire, & yt his present Right to ye Electorate &c was owned by ye very Act which requires him to make a Renunciation of it, & by those who then pressed him to do it, [[deletion]] yt [[/deletion]] that his Brother had no Right at present, nor can have any but what ye Young King shall give him; yt he is under no Obligation but to act agreeably to ye Laws of ye Kingdom, which he will do, & keep ye Electorate too, if ye Act be repealed; yt he ought indeed to have a dutyfull Respect to ye Will & Pleasure of his Royal Ancestors,
